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I just finished reading Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick. I found it to be a very interesting read both from a historical and a genealogical point of view. he tells a 55-year epic of the Pilgrims from the crossing of the Mayflower in 1620 through King Philip’s War in 1676. He tells the real story — [...] On Thanksgiving Day, I always take a few moment to reflect on the lives of a group of people who endured persecution in their homeland, lived in exile, made an arduous journey across the North Atlantic, and settled in a hostile foreign land where they endured great hardship. I’m particularly thankful that eight in that [...] What we commonly refer to as the first Thanksgiving was actually a Harvest Home festival, which was as much partying as the Puritans were willing to allow. They didn’t even celebrate Christmas because they felt it was too pagan. To the Pilgrims, a Thanksgiving Day was a day in church thanking God for His blessings. I’ve [...] Arlo Guthrie — Alice’s Restaurant Massacree Today’s Quote: “Life is uncertain – eat dessert first.” — unknown T’m thankful that I don’t feel quite as bad as I did yesterday. I can count eight passengers who made the voyage on the Mayflower as ancestors – Francis Cooke, John Tilley, Joan (Hurst) (Rogers) Tilley, Elizabeth Tilley, John Howland, Isaac [...] UB40 – Red Red Wine Today’s Quote: “I haven’t had much use for manifestos since I found the gospel of cynical hedonism.” — unknown I found Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of The Mayflower to be very interesting and quite enlightening. It gave me new insight to the hardships my Pilgrim ancestors faced in England, Holland, [...] Gimme Shelter – The Rolling Stones Catchy subject line, isn’t it? Feel free to use it; I don’t mind because I lifted it from the subject line of an e-mail I received. I think it’s a paraphrasing of a line in the first Batman movie (Michael Keaton, not Adam West) where the Joker says to Batman, [...] |
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